Edward Paulino, Associate Professor of Global History, received a 2024 Fulbright Scholar Award as a Fulbright Specialist. The Fulbright Specialist Program supports U.S. academics and established professionals engaged in project-based exchanges at host institutions across the globe. 

Paulino’s traditional and public humanities scholarship ranges from books like Dividing Hispaniola and the co-edited Border of Lights Reader, writing scripts for the Ted Ed online “Ugly History” series and writing and performing his one-person show “Eddie’s Perejil” to the “Converging Cultures: Latin America, 1520-1830, Making Objects Speak” audio tour of the Brooklyn Museum of Art Andean Colonial Collection.

Additionally, Paulino has received the New York State Archives Larry J. Hackman Research Residency Award, National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Research Award, and several PSC-CUNY Research Awards. His research interests include genocide, race, borders, nation-building, the U.S., Latin America/Caribbean, Latinx, the African diaspora, and New York State history.